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or “How the Fellowship of the Ring discovered the meddling of the Red Wizard”

Frodo Baggins inherited more than just a ring, but a responsibility to adventure, confront adversity, and defeat evil. The One Ring must be destroyed, and so a fellowship has formed. For some reason, they keep encountering signs of another wizard. One who has spent years assisting them, before the ring was uncovered and without the knowledge nor approval of the White Council.

The Red Wizard must be incredibly powerful to have greater foresight and better schemes than everyone else in Middle Earth.

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Dark AU, diverging from the end of the Two Towers: Sauron regains his Ring in Ithilien, and a very bleak world emerges for those who survive the Ringwar to make their way in. Warning for character deaths.

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It is, she knows, a pretty picture--a thoughtful, cunning picture: the last surviving child of the Stewards, leading the returning king into the city; a woman in a gown as white as the city walls, cradling the white scepter of the Stewards as though it is a child. She is a fitting end to the years of a kingless Gondor: an orphaned, unmarried woman, as bereft as a city and realm without a king.

(“I am a metaphor,” she had told Eowyn days before, when she had explained how she was to open the city gates and offer the throne to the king. “A personification of the city.”

“A city,” Eowyn had asked, “that is still battered by war?”

Farduil had laughed, feeling herself flush, and had said, “Perhaps it is more apt a metaphor than I should like.”)

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Written for culumacilinte's prompt of an AU with a fem!Faramir, which hit all my kinks, because I love ladies, and I love exploring politics, marriages, inheritance issues, etc., through the lens of gender.

It's mostly a re-imagining of the end of RotK if Denethor had one (dead) son and one (living) daughter. Expect a ton of Steward of Gondor feels, because I love that family so much.

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Galbatorix' plot threatens not just the future of Alagaësia: by some powerful magic, he has managed to find his way to another world ... and the same magic has now pulled Legolas and his son away from Arda! A frantic search begins in Gondor while war knocks on their door; and, meanwhile, the before simple villager Roran Garrowson finds himself hunted and in odd company.

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In the aftermath of the Siege, the men and women of Minas Tirith take inventory. One drabble for each circle of the city. (Alternate summary: Aliana loves minor characters. Praise them with Great Praise.)